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| David Weathers' ERA matched his chins |
FWIW, two of the traded prospects had been listed among the Yankees' Top 20, so let's figure the farm system is tapped out and will be hard pressed to deliver a Freddy Peralta -(though Spencer Jones remains on the table.)
As for Ryan Weathers, here are 10 sorta fun facts.
1. He's a former 1st round pick. (WTF is it with Cooperstown Cashman and former 1st rounders?) He was selected 7th, by San Diego, in the 2018 draft. (His dad was a 3rd rounder, by Toronto, in 1988.)
2. He turned 26 last month, and he's under contract until 2029. (Another major attraction for Cashman.)
3. His portly dad, David, was listed as 6'3" and 205 (a hallucinatory number.) Ryan is 6'1" and 230. A chunk.
4. As a high school senior, Ryan was named 2017 Gatorade National Player of the Year. He must have gotten laid all the time. He committed to Vanderbilt.
5. After being drafted, Ryan signed for $5.2 million and went to Fort Wayne, where he pitched decently (ERA 3.84) in the Midwest dirt league.
6. In 2020, with the Padres, Ryan became the 2nd pitcher in MLB history to make his debut in the fucking postseason, pitching 1.1 innings, walking two. Seriously, he debuted in the playoffs!
7. He made the 2021 Padres roster out of spring training, looked like a future thing, and then pretty much sucked over 30 games that year. (ERA 5.32.)
8. At the 2023 trade deadline, San Diego dealt him to Miami for Garret Cooper and Sean Reynolds. Again, he pretty much sucked. (ERA 7.62.)
9. Weathers started to blossom in 2024, throwing 71 innings (ERA 3.63), but he missed several months with a strained index finger.
10. In 2025, he showed more promise, (ERA 3.99) but missed big chunks of the season with strains of his forearm and lat.
Good stuff. Can't stay healthy. Ours for three years. Not sure what we gave up, or what this signifies - if anything - for Bellinger and the outfield. But you have to really believe in miracles, if you think the Yankees have solved their pitching issues.
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The trust funders in Yankee management prize legacy hires above everything else. It's the only quality they'll invest in, that wasn't 'verified' by their AI analytics bot.
Nothing changes, nothing changes. La plus qui change. If you keep doing what you always did, you'll get what you always got.
And, mind you, I was never a Maria Muldaur fan. Always a blues, Stones, Clash, Jazz, Sun Ra etc kind of guy, BUT, imagine this to the melody of "Midnight at the Oasis"
Food stamps on the horizon
Hal is tucked into bed
Dreaming of a casino
The Yankees lie there, dead.
Brian's making the calls now
Couch change in his hand
Nothing's left on the farm now
Except an empty shed.
OKAY OKAY, that's not my best work, but most people missed my song posts from last week, which I think were pretty good. No matter, I'm fine, I tell you.
BUT, to give you an idea of how fucked up the 70s were - and I know you all know this already, while many insanely great albums were being released all the time, here are the ACTUAL lyrics to the chorus of Midnight at the Oasis, a song that shot up the charts. It's enough to make you run to Shea and buy a ticket to the Mets...
"Come on, Cactus is our friend
He'll point out the way
Come on, 'til the evenin' ends
'Til the evenin' ends"
I hear ya, Bitty. But as a 15-year-old, she sounded like the sexiest thing in the world over the radio. I didn't really care what she was singing. And hey, "Waitress in a Donut Shop" was kinda fun.
I bought the album, I'll admit it, at Sam Goody's for about three bucks. I'd listen to it at night with headphones, stacked somewhere in between Exile on Main Street and some Allman Brothers. But I didn't tell my friends. Later, I found out that my friends had bought albums by Bread and Alice Cooper, so I didn't feel so bad.
I remember someone telling me that Minnie Riperton was a perfect angel . . .
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